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… , a powerful text in military history, unfinished when he died in 1831. The phrase is based on his experiences in the … portion is not a mere piece of the whole, but a small whole complete in itself.” A small whole complete in itself, … it may feel, or even become true, that there is no real audience, which is to say, there might be nothing outside the …
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… Even now, after a century and hundreds of studies, we can draw no coherent picture of the slaveholders of … exaggerated, outsized, ill-proportioned. In all the portrayals we have of slaveholders in the 19th century, none comes across as a generally likable or balanced person—even …
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… discussion turns on the poem’s meaning and how meaning becomes lodged through metaphor, image, meter, symbol, … and women were women and critics were critics. There may also have been an exact hour in the seventeenth century … everything. There have been sophisticated and revealing studies on these subjects, but in the classroom what you tend …
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… had pillaged the home of the governor, assaulted British soldiers, and resisted royal authority in a manner regarded … to the bar in 1767 until a few days before his death in 1826. These memoranda are especially reliable in respect to … expedience may have caused him to deviate on special points, but there are few men in public life whose course …
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… narrow, flowing stream of blacktop. When the leaves come and go on the sycamore tree, changing color, falling to … of burly round fruit hanging from its spindly limbs. But also in the winter I get a better look at the traffic on the … a gallant 15 month battle against pancreatic cancer, she died at age 54 on October 18, 2001. A Democrat, she was the …